Iteration(s), with Jared Brown and Briana Lynn

Briana Lynn & Jared Brown will intuitively combine sound, improvisation, and omni-directional text to create a composition unique to SSCAC.     Meditating on this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial's theme : “This is a Rehearsal,” Briana Lynn and Jared Brown will re-iterate their experimental collaborative composition to the South Side Community Art Center (originally performed last […]

A BLACK ARTIST RECEPTION AT 3831

A day celebrating Black artists and your hard work throughout the year! We'll also be joined by artist Cory Perry for a special performance.   The South Side Community Art Center has hosted innovative, ground-breaking, and forward exhibitions and programs throughout 2023, which would not have been possible without the array of Black ingenuity and […]

3831 HOLIDAY POP-UP!

Join us for our 2nd annual 3831 Holiday Pop-Up, with some of the city’s most talented Black creatives!   Come through to support some of Chicago’s most gifted and talented Black creatives as we move into the Holiday season.     3831 Holiday Pop-Up is a mini pop-up market hosted in our historic Burroughs gallery, […]

Bronzeville in Reel Time with South Side Home Movie Project

Join us for an afternoon of South Side home movies, featuring newly preserved films of Bronzeville from filmmaker Ramon Williams!     In partnership with South Side Home Movie Project, with support from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, SSCAC is thrilled to host a special screening showcasing select cinema reels of Ramon Williams. Ramon […]

Honoring Hunt: Legacies in Chicago Black Metalworkers

Learn about the artistic histories of Black metalworker artists in Chicago!     SSCAC’s Archives and Collections Manager LaMar R. Gayles Jr. will introduce visitors to different metalworkers who have worked throughout Chicago’s artistic landscape. Amongst these makers there will be special attention given to the work of famed, now ancestral artist Richard Howard Hunt […]

Flash, Focus: A Camera Demo Workshop with Latitude Chicago.

Join us for a camera demo workshop to learn the basics of photography! Latitude's Executive Director Colleen Keihm and current Artist in Resident Anwulika Angibo will host a Camera Demo workshop here at the Southside Community Art Center in a special continuing partnership with Latitude Chicago. Guests are invited to bring an analog or digital […]

BLACK WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AS WORLDBUILDERS

Join us for a conversation with several Black women creative entrepreneurs traversing fashion, vintage, and design here in Chicago.     SSCAC is proud to host a panel of Black women entrepreneurs whose business models have been crafted to be intentionally centered on fashion, style, vintage, design and jewelry - creating worlds and community within their […]

BENDING LIGHT ARTIST TALK: SOUTH SIDE NIGHT x EXPO CHICAGO

Join us for an artist talk moderated by Paul Branton! Paul Branton, artist and curator of SSCAC's current exhibition BendingLight, will facilitate an artist talk with the exhibiting artists of SSCAC's current exhibition Bending Light, detailing the exhibition’s themes and subject matter as it relates to explorations of color and identity.   The artists explore the impact of […]

3831 CINEMA: FOR THE LOVE OF BLACK ARTISTS

Join us for Art After Hours powered by Gertie, with screenings from filmmakers Rachel Gadson and Briana Clearly!     We're thrilled to host filmmakers Rachel Gadson and Briana Clearly for rotational film screenings as part of Art After Hours Powered by Gertie, for EXPO art week!   Sponsored by Arete Wealth & Masterworks, AAH takes […]

The Power of our Ancestors and Re(membrance)

South Chicago Farm 9001 S Mackinaw Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

From Jean Baptiste Point duSable, Ida B. Wells to Chairman Fred Hampton and Late Mayor Harold Washington and so many elders, we will share story, ritual and co-create a series […]

The Power of Our Ancestors and Remembrance

South Chicago Farm 9001 S Mackinaw Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, Ida B. Wells to Chairman Fred Hampton and Late Mayor Harold Washington and so many elders, we will share stories, rituals and co-create a series […]

Eselean Goree Henderson: A Practice in Clay

Join SSCAC Archives and Collections Manager Lamar Gayles Jr. for a special program on Eselean Goree Henderson.   Join us for a conversation with SSCAC Archives and Collections Manager Lamar […]